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Captivating Cave

Land — Cave · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

114

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Captivating Cave

Land — Cave

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. {4}

, Sacrifice this land: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Common · Illustrated by Lorenzo Lanfranconi

Final zone distribution

26 instances

61.5%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

19.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 5 decks
2 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
3 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 2 decks
4 Shadrix Silverquill 2 decks
5 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller 2 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
8 Balan, Wandering Knight 1 decks
9 Brago, King Eternal 1 decks
10 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

114 brought · 42 players

Brought to game

114

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=19) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=68).

Observed gap +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.